Frank Sinatra for Governor?

There’s often a quirky candidate among the third-party and independent folks who file to run for governor or Legislature — people like Dean Greco, who ran for Congress last year in the 7th District (that was the Leonard Lance vs. Linda Stender race) as the candidate of the All-Day Breakfast Party. Here’s his campaign home page[1] … complete with him holding a bagel. He got 3,259 votes, finishing 4th out of 5 candidates with 1.1 percent.

This year’s winner appears to be gubernatorial candidate Gary Stein of Mullica, who’s running under a different slogan in every county. That’s odd, though not unheard of. Most of his slogans, however, are song titles — standards, primarily written between the 1930s and 1950s, mostly though not exclusively popularly performed by Frank Sinatra, which probably isn’t a bad play if you’re seeking votes in New Jersey.

Here they are:

Atlantic: Rock The Boat (which could be this 1974 hit [2]by the Hues Corp., which used to open for Sinatra; or ‘Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat’ from Guys and Dolls, for which Sinatra was in the 1955 movie cast; or Dean Martin’s ‘Don’t Rock the Boat Dear’)

Burlington: Giv’m Heck Gary (the only thing on here apparently not a song, but rather a play on the old phrase related to Harry Truman)